The Swollen Prostate Regiment of the Chairborne Ranger Division is coming to save us from unAmerican Communists. The can give the war cry of "WOLVERINES" and "Stop Porkulus!" as their Medicare-bought electric chairs whirr them up to storm the White House fence. Some will manage to wheeze their way over and will survive, as the White House guards will be laughing too hard to shoot straight.

I wonder how brave these fools would really be if the US government decided they were actively fomenting a rebellion and not just venting out their ass. On second thought, I’d like nothing better than to see Hannity and this "honored guest" poster brought up on charges the moment some wingnut decides to take a potshot at a federal building. It’s not like the chances of such and attack are low; these guys are completely unhinged.

I hope someone is perserving that thread, because it’s like permanent innoculation against any stupid lefty blog thread where someone says something stupid that is singled out as proof that democrats are violent or traitors.

Note that the question does not ask what the voter would actually do, just what is appealing; whoever wrote it realizes that the typical Hannity troll can’t be bothered to do that action thing and would rather let someone else do all the heavy lifting.

If these asshats think "armed rebellion" will include the US military they are more fucking delusional than I thought they were, which is saying a lot because on a scale of 1 to 10 I already thought they had reached 644 or so.

I can’t believe this, but I think I actually felt safer when my party was out of power and they were calling me a traitor.

I can’t agree. It’s scary I’ll admit, but thankfully most of these guys are all talk. On the other hand, when their "team" was in power we got two wars that have led to hefty casualties and heftier numbers of wounded in exchange for nothing. On the whole, I’ll take the guys with the flapping gums over the wars.

On the other hand – I bet it’s a pain in the ass to be working for the FBI these days. They have to be expecting another Oklahoma City attempt in the next few years. I hope they’re up for the challenge.

Military Coup, Armed Rebellion, War of Secession? Aren’t these three terms for – functionally – the same damn thing?

I would abso-fucking-lutely love to see the Cheetos brigades take to the streets in some serious fashion. Watching the right wing hordes line up and collectively shoot themselves in the feet (literally this time) would be too much fun to watch. You could definitely sell tickets.

Oh yes. Excellent. Good job, Sean. Keep this insanity in the spotlight, constantly. The more publicity the better. Make moderate/casual conservatives realize just what it is that’s slithering past their ankles as they wade into the movement. Impress upon real centrists (as opposed to "center-rightists" (TM)) just what’s infesting the right wing these days. And keep the rest of us on our toes.

And I mean it. If it helps us avoid another Oklahoma City, it’s well worth all the aggravation of having to see and hear this crap in the media.

I’m actually surprised Sean allows threads like this to exist. Talk of sedition and murdering fellow Americans will be the rich fodder of the fringe elements who will demand the fairness doctrine, mark my words.

I guess DougJ is now a "fringe element" for calling them out on murder and sedition fantasies.

Well organized band of revolutionaries can easily bring this country to its knees. Times are helluva allot different than it was 230 years ago. And most people been spoiled with today’s luxuries that your great great grandfathers didn’t have. Most people wouldn’t know how to live without electricity, or fuel. After couple of weeks people would be begging for this siege to stop.
You have no idea just how vulnerable our infrastructure really is.

Bloody hell. I’m trying to read that thread and in the time it takes to read a page they add one more… I can see this’ll be a long night. Might have to go get me some popcorn, it’s starting to get funny…

If these asshats think "armed rebellion" will include the US military they are more fucking delusional than I thought they were, which is saying a lot because on a scale of 1 to 10 I already thought they had reached 644 or so.

Yet it seems that the ultimate paradox in any rebellion for freedom from within is that the ultimate goal is to impose the will of the rebels on everyone else through force. It seems the very foundation of representative democracy is ****tered if we accept that we exchange the the power of ideas for the power of the sword upon each other.

Nevertheless, I am still very interested in your own preferred form of revolt.

Neverthelss, I am still very interested in whether or not Boehner was ever called Boner in high school.

@Michael: Shame how he was forced to pull out and retreat to the FOX Noise network. I was afraid CNN was going to escape the sucking black hole of liberalism that is John King, Lou Dobbs, and Scary Werewolf Man.

@Walker: I watched some of that and he actually had "experts" on to explain why the military would follow the Red State Strike Force in their assault on the White House. Beck too denied that he was advocating this action, he just, you know, sayin’.

@Gravenstone: It is the textbook definition of sedition. Via Webster:
sedition
Conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state

My point, exactly.

And to the clown poster from the Manitee’s site excerpted above – seriously, sedition doesn’t bother you, but the fact the dirty stinkin’ libs might use it against you does? Priorities, motherfucker! Do you have them?

@Gravenstone: Fortunately a handful of the posters in that 120+ and growing thread mention that this is sedition, and the guy that started the thread keeps saying "I was just wondering, I’m not serious", but the fact that Beck and now the Hannity Drones are fantasizing about it should give us all pause. I say bring ’em on. It would be too cool if we could just meet in the park with baseball bats and chains and get it on Outsiders style.

4. American – You know, the one that gave us the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

I think I can make an argument that the poll and the various comments constitute Treason as set forth in the U.S. Constitution, and clearly these treasonous comments are being witnessed by more than two people. Thanks to warrantless wiring-taping, it should not take the Justice Department too long to find the posters of these treasonous comments.

I am not joking. This is too much. I cannot be snarky about this, especially when this follows the Glenn Beck "special report" on whether the U.S. Army would support rebellion against the U.S. government. Do they think that Democrats and "liberals" would not fight back? Do they think that only "conservatives" own guns?

I am not joking. This is too much. I cannot be snarky about this, especially when this follows the Glenn Beck "special report" on whether the U.S. Army would support rebellion against the U.S. government. Do they think that Democrats and "liberals" would not fight back? Do they think that only "conservatives" own guns?

OK, for those of you who twitter, if you add #teaparty to your tweets, say the ones about really wanting a bagel or asking about home remedies for jock itch – whatever floats your boat, your comment will be added to the teaparty playaz main communication stream.

Not that I would ever do such a thing, all day long tomorrow for instance, or anything like that.

@gwangung: It’s obscenely stupid on its face. Who are the Red State Heroes going to rebel against? Their own state and local governments? Or are they all gonna hop in their Tahoes and drive from Tennessee to DC to bust a cap?

You think Pawlenty, Schwartzenagger, Jindal, Palin, or Perry are going to embrace armed insurgency in their own states? Or is this a Red State uprising in backwater Pennsylvania and upstate New York? I mean, who do these people think they are going to be shooting at?

No, actually it wouldn’t. What would be cool, though, is to see them shit their pants when they see what it would really mean to get into armed rebellion.

Remember how things went back in the Clinton-hating 90s? The fringe anti-government groups found out the hard way that you don’t get very far if the majority of the public doesn’t appreciate your efforts.

It seems the very foundation of representative democracy is ****tered if we accept that we exchange the the power of ideas for the power of the sword upon each other.

They have a profanity filter on there and the word "shat" (because it’s the past tense of shit) is one of the words filtered. And it’s considered a violation if someone tries to put the word in anyway, even if it’s part of another, non-filtered word.

Idle thought- can you imagine if that asshole in TN, who shot and killed the Unitarians because they were liberals or democrats, had opened fire in a Baptist church instead and blamed the GOP for his sad state of affairs?

I do not know about teh ghey (my gaydar sucks!), but it definetly seems a bit self-absorbed.

It makes Stephen Colbert’s site look restrained.

Most people wouldn’t know how to live without electricity, or fuel. After couple of weeks people would be begging for this siege to stop.

No, not really. Despite the GOP’s perception of Democrats and Independents as a bunch of surrender monkeys, I (at least) would get pretty bitter and pissed off if the Red State Fuckwads started acting like a bunch of Al Qaeda and tried to disrupt my life.

I’m no fan of government, but if you’ve put up with or spend all of your time cheerleading during the last eight years, and only now (now that your particular party is out of power) do you discover ‘limted government’ and respect of the Constitution, and advocate rebellion as a remedy, then you are not a principled man. You are not a patriot.

You are an opportunistic cocksucker deserving of nothing but ridicule, scorn, and derision.

@Walker: Beck needs to check out the formal oath our military men and women swear to the Constitution. If the fucking idiot thinks they will join and insurrection against a legally elected CIC then he has never asked anyone in the actual military what their opinion is on this subject.

I am so sick of these wingnutty fucknuts thinking that because they have the verbal wherewithal to say the phrase "support the troops" that they have any flippin clue what the military does, thinks or how it operates. One idiot active duty jackass says something that’s going to get his ass court martialed and these eejits extrapolate it to believing that the entire military establishment will support an armed insurrection.

Hate to rain on the parade, but 1) it’s a poll created by a forum user, so it’s not Hannity or any representative thereof throwing it out there, and 2) the comment thread after it is actually pretty reasonable with an apparent plurality writing in ‘tax revolt’. I wouldn’t be surprised if the OP was a liberal trying to goad the forum regulars.

Despite the GOP’s perception of Democrats and Independents as a bunch of surrender monkeys, I (at least) would get pretty bitter and pissed off if the Red State Fuckwads started acting like a bunch of Al Qaeda and tried to disrupt my life.

Yeah, well, I’d actually like to see these Fuckwads attempt to live the "Al Qaeda lifestyle". It’s not like those guys living in caves at the edge of civilization have all of life’s amenities at their fingertips either. I imagine the Red State Revolutionaries would cave faster than the rest of this country once they realized that the only way they were going to stay out of government custody was by hiding in the mountains and living off squirrels and berries.

@magisterludi: And may I point out, as a proud Unitarian, that the men jumped the shooter and beat him down while another dude shielded the children and took a bullet. At Virgina Tech a commie terrorist loving prof took a bullet to protect his students. Where were the Yellow Elephants and ROTC? Shitting their pants under their desks.

@magisterludi: And may I point out, as a proud Unitarian, that the men jumped the shooter and beat him down while another dude shielded the children and took a bullet. At Virgina Tech a commie terrorist loving prof took a bullet to protect his students. Where were the Yellow Elephants and ROTC? Shitting their pants under their desks.

@sidereal: There’s no doubt that armed rebellion is a minority position within the Republican party, and probably even in that thread. But there is some serious defense of these options in the thread as well. It’s a debate with people on both sides. And that is pretty fucking noteworthy if you ask me.

I imagine the Red State Revolutionaries would cave faster than the rest of this country once they realized that the only way they were going to stay out of government custody was by hiding in the mountains and living off squirrels and berries.

Hell, I remember that loon whose post-inauguration hunger strike ended after three days when he got a craving for a Big Mac.

There’s no doubt that armed rebellion is a minority position within the Republican party,

I think it could be a large minority, though. That’s why it’s a safe haven for the gun loons who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a loaded weapon. Ever. The pinky dinks in their wife beaters and baseball caps just love the bang-bang shoot’em up overt machismo of the whole concept.

According to Sadly No, the Tea Party event in Pittsburgh has been canceled due to, wait for it….rain. Oh, the humanity! Do the Steelers know about this?

Scene from the TeaPartyRevolution:

Gen. Washington: "Are the men loaded in the boats, Sgt? We need to cross the Delaware swiftly under cover of night if we’re to succeed."

Sergeant: "I’m sorry sir, but we aren’t loading the boats."

Gen. Washington: "What! Why not! The battle for our Republic hangs in the balance! Get those men loaded!"

Sergeant: "Well, sir, the weather chappie thinks it’s going to start raining and the men… Ummm, the rain kind of puts a damper on the morale, if you know what I mean, sir."

Gen. Washington: "Rain, hmmm? Dash it." Pauses. "Right, sergeant, get the man tucked snuggly into their tents. The Republic will just have to hang on a little longer. Gosh, some hot tea would hit the spot right now. Ha! None of that now, of course. Guess I’ll just have to settle for a bowl of piping hot Philadelphia Pepperpot Soup. See to it, sergeant, if you don’t mind."

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There’s no doubt that armed rebellion is a minority position within the Republican party, and probably even in that thread. But there is some serious defense of these options in the thread as well. It’s a debate with people on both sides. And that is pretty fucking noteworthy if you ask me.

I agree. I hope the FBI is ready for the next wave of shootings in Democratic Party HQ’s and bombings of federal buildings.

Hate to rain on the parade, but 1) it’s a poll created by a forum user, so it’s not Hannity or any representative thereof throwing it out there, and 2) the comment thread after it is actually pretty reasonable with an apparent plurality writing in ‘tax revolt’.

1) Yes, but you know that if something similar appeared on Daily Kos or some other liberal site, even if not authored by the site owners, Hannity, Beck and O’Reilly would be all over the site calling them America-haters. Indeed, IIRC, this happened at least once during the presidential campaign where O’Reilly took a comment from thousands to a post and claimed that the entire site hated America, were commie pinkos, etc., etc., ad naseum. If I were Hannity’s lawyer (and you could not pay me enough to do that), I would advise him to remove that poll post haste and warn people not not post any other shit like that. I would actually use the word shit in my memo to him, after I hit him over the head with a legal dictionary several times.

2) So tax revolt is better than armed revolution? The Colonials during the Boston Tea Party destroyed property in order to protest taxation without representation. A tax revolt would very likely lead to some kind of armed standoff, so people advocating a tax revolt still appear to be advocating violence against the federal government. Also, what are they going to protest, the largest f-cking tax cut in American history? Assholes.

Granted Balloon Juice can parody anything, but it’s still only very darkly funny, as all those people are allowed to own guns. I personally think that’s just a risk we have to run as a free society, and besides the quickest way to get these guys to run amok IS to try and take their guns away- but the prospect of them randomly going on a psycho spree and hurting somebody ain’t that funny.

Funny would be them shooting themselves in the foot- not shooting some innocent bystander or hapless government clerk. That’s not funny, that’s just bullshit, and that’s more or less the best we can hope for as a worst case scenario.

We do have a society, of sorts. Randomly shooting Democrats is not considered part of a First World political process.

Fuck John! I scrolled down the front page and damn near punched my laptop screen when I saw InsHannity. I know you put stuff up like that but seeing his fugly mug on BJ was still a shock. The actual content of the page is not surprising at all given the tone that wingnutz are adopting.

Sadly, I fully expect some unhinged wingnut to go berserk and kill in the name of their cause now that the wingnutz have been marginalized. Shit like this will only encourage some nutjob to act on their own and become a martyr. Of course, as usual people like InsHannity will deny any part in encouraging these nuts but I have a feeling that they really hope shit will happen.

As said above, nobody, but NOBODY, hates America and Americans like the Rushublican party hates America and Americans. Absolutely.

Fuck! Matthews just went off on Issa about his referring to the Democratic party the "Democrat party". Chris called him on the pettiness of that shit and asked him to stop it and save it for the stump. Then he cut Issa off in responding and said ‘let me go to Barney Frank for some English’.

I’m thinking that if any of those idiots are planning a stupid and pointless action, they’ll do it on April 12, the anniversary of the day Confederate batteries opened fire on Fort Sumter. Of course, they won’t actually do it at Fort Sumter; you need to take a boat to get there and they probably would get seasick.

@celticdragon:
What gets me about this is that it is ONLY OBVIOUS to anyone who lived through the 1990s that the crazier righty elements will soon be cooking up violent plots (if they aren’t already). In fact, given Obama’s race, his policy ambitions, and the vicious right wing demonology that has so quickly developed around him (he isn’t really American!), the powderkeg out there is if anything much more primed for violence than it was in the 1990s. But the "leaders" of the right, be it Hannity or Limbaugh or their online equivalents, or even their most closely allied politicians — all of whom know full well what they’re playing with — are all but coming out and cheering it on!

I’m actually surprised Sean allows threads like this to exist. Talk of sedition and murdering fellow Americans will be the rich fodder of the fringe elements who will demand the fairness doctrine, mark my words.

So… "Talk of sedition and murdering fellow Americans" is mainstream, and only fringe elements would find it troubling?

My money’s on secession, based on the number of respondents. I mean, it takes way more than 3 guys for a military coup, and 8 guys will generally be outnumbered an armed rebellion (unless they’re rebelling against their moms). But 7 guys could totally secede, any time. They may have already done it.

Hannity won the WPITW award for today…lol! BillO will have to settle for second place with Dennis Miller and some other wingnut.

That is kind of silly. Hannity probably has no clue what these idiots are doing on that forum. It is nutpicking at its best. The only reason Doug probably posted it is because of the three options, which included secession. Hence the “you can’t parody these guys” remark.

Hannity is a jackass, but you can’t fault him for those idiots. That is like blaming Kos for every idiotic diary or the Obama campaign for stupid shit people wrote there.

Add up the credit card bills in 37 days and those already proposed to be spent in the near future. The counrty will soon be a home owner defaulting on a loan, only that loan will be owned by another country.

It’s not easy for an illitarate to understand(you). We are currently writing checks we can’t cover. We can print all the bills we want, but if the bill says $100.00 and it is worth only $25.00, Guido will work out the remainder.

I really can’t stand the smugness, intentional stupidity, and arrogance of Hannity. I am sure he would say the same for me. I hope my politics are one of inclusion, while I feel like his are one of lining his pockets. I am not sure what credentials he has but the IGA needs their bagger back.

@John Cole: Probably not, but Bill-O and the rest of Faux News (I can’t pin Vannity specifically) did call Kos a "hate-site" because of a few kook posters, not diarists or front pagers, just posters. We’ll see if Bill-O says the same about Vannity’s fans or Stormtrooper Beck. Bill-O claimed he would delete such things from his website, which is interesting for a self-styled Champion of the Constitution.

You know, I really do want to see an opposition party emerge from this. I really do. I don’t want a one party system governing our country. I want to see a Republican party that can raise legitimate complaints against this administration.

Americans deserve a decent opposition party. What the Republican party is offering right now is pure shit.

Since people of different political persuasions are literally intermixed throughout the land, it would require things like killing your own neighbor if they disagree with you politically. While that could certainly work in terms of winning power, it would seem to contradict a lot of constitutional principles, which would presumably be the whole point of such a rebellion to begin with.

some very ethereal, constitutional law thinking going on over there. glennzilla needs to weigh in on this.

"I’m no fan of government, but if you’ve put up with or spend all of your time cheerleading during the last eight years, and only now (now that your particular party is out of power) do you discover ‘limted government’ and respect of the Constitution, and advocate rebellion as a remedy, then you are not a principled man. You are not a patriot.

You are an opportunistic cocksucker deserving of nothing but ridicule, scorn, and derision."

Sean, you’re a right wing boilerplate talking point automaton tuned into the doofus network. What you are allowing is and or implying is subterfuge, treason, anarchy along with unpatriotic rhetoric. You are a fool, a hypocrite and a shameless self righteous pampas jackass self promoter who’s intellectual wattage couldn’t power a fire flies ass. You need to sit down and shut up and stop trying to start an insurrection before you cross the line, actually you did that already. What would you have said if Olbermann had mentioned that about Bush’s administration 2 yrs ago? Well we all know the answer to that don’t we Mr stooge.

what a bunch of statist idiots – falling for the Hannity, neocon domcrats vs republicans, conservatives vs liberals – us vs them bullsh!t

The government regardless of republican or democrat crontrolled is stealing the country blind, selling you into slavery and telling you they are "saving" you the whole time and you believe it.

Hannity is a tool and so is huffington, Obama hasnt provided more freedom or backed off on the war stance of Bush in anyway, in fact its really hard to tell the difference between Obama and Bush except in the area of overly reactinary religious BS like stemcells.

But in the end you are just as abused, controlled and enslaved by the pretend black man in the presidency today as you were by the pretend texas redneck who just went home. The only difference is a the group whos drinking the koolaid today is liberals instead of neocons.

People disregard cable/talk show talkers like Sean Haircut at their own peril. You make think his blusterings that of a simple buffoon, but like it or not, Sean Haircut has a lot of influence with his audience. Somebody out there is liable to hurt somebody because this man’s influence. It’s time to start working on sponsors of his program.

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